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Oct
12

Web Traffic Through Search Engine Optimization

Web Traffic Through Search Engine Optimization

Search engine Optimization is one of the finest ways to generate targeted Web traffic. The ultimate goal of Search Engine optimization is to get a web site to the first few pages of Search engines which generate a lot of search engine web traffic.

A lot of ways exist to achieve search engine optimization to get web traffic. The first thing among them that bothers the most is the use of keywords appropriately on the site. So, search engine optimization starts right from the website design. Using the highest priority keywords is the key tool in search engine optimization.

Google, in the past, considered keyword density as the tool for search engine optimization. Keyword density simply means placing the main keyword many number of times the content of the site for web traffic. This proved good for a period of time to provide good web traffic. The only disadvantage here is that, repeating the same keyword many times brings in duplicate content to the site and duplicate content is never good.

So, Google has made changes in this law. What Google defines as quality now is that content that not only contains the main keyword but also contains a few other related keywords that Google finds basing on an algorithm and awards traffic this way. Google named this as LSI relevancy.

Google has put in its generous effort to define the highest priority related keywords for any content of the site. The effort resulted Google Ad word tool. What we do here is, very simple. We just type in the main keyword for which we are targeting web traffic into the input box and a list comes up with all the related keywords. As you can imagine, this has made it easy to find the related keywords. The next step is to include maximum number of the related keyword in the content of the web site. It’s as simple as that.

Most of the people use this way.  Another way exists, but many ignore this. In the other way, we make a search of our main keyword in Google. We then find out the website ranked highest by Google for our keyword. We can then find out the keywords used in the highest ranked website. To do this, another part of Google Ad words tool is to be used.  This appears as “Instead of descriptive words or phrases you do it by web content”. This is pretty easy. We just need to type in the URL we got from the first website in the search engine results and in a few seconds a list appears with all the related contents. These are the related keyword that we need. The next steps are similar. We just use these related keywords in the site content. This makes the site search engine optimized in the eyes of Google. Hence our objective is accomplished.

Sep
23

Get Listed in Google and Get Free Website Traffic

Get Listed in Google and Get Free Website Traffic

The title is vitally important to how Google and the other search engines rank you. It’s probably the single most important part of a webpage. But it’s often neglected or badly-worded. I’m as guilty of this as the next guy. I come from a magazine-writing and radio copy-writing background.


I love the doubl entendre and the wacky headline. I saw one yesterday in The Sydney Morning Herald, as it happens. Heading a story on a so-called Millionaire who became a Buddhist monk and was busted several times for growing and supplying hydroponic pot.


The Sub-Editor had a lot of fun with this story by heading it Felonious Monk (From Thelonious Monk the jazz musician). But while that’s pretty slick for a newspaper, it’s not much good as a heading for an online story. Why? Because they are bad keywords. Nobody’s going to Google Felonious Monk are they?


They might Google Monk Growing Pot or something like that but never the other. So the Title is a chance for you to throw up your keywords – your powerful keywords that you’ve already researched after using a free keyword tool (you’ll find one on my Wallyworld site) – throw them up in your Title Tag as its called in HTML and attract Google and the other Search Engines interest (and build backlinks).


The page title should include only your main keywords. The least amount of words you can place in the title, the more weight Google will give to each of the keywords and the higher you will rank. Keep it mean and lean. Cut out the unnecessary words like “How”, “You Can”, “Get”, “Become” – old style copywriting frills like that and go for the jugular – even ditch conjunctions like “and” and “to” if you can. Google doesn’t care about the style – it just wants the nitty-gritty.


I could have headed this story something wordy like How to Boost Your Google Rankings and Increase your Adsense Earnings at the Same Time with a Few Simple Tips Using this FREE Tool. But Google would probably just pick up on the Boost Your Google Rankings part anyway.


Add h1 Header Tags to your site. Now we need to add a h1 header tag and put at least one of our strong keywords there.


Put the h1 header tag as far up the top of the page as possible. When Google reads a webpage, it views the text from the top left hand side of the page to the bottom right hand side of the page. The header tag is a title for the content you have on your page.


For example, the h1 header tag of this page might be: “Adding Killer Keywords to Your Titles Can Really Boost Your Google Rankings!”


Add h2 header tags to your site. An h2 header tag is kinda like a sub heading for your webpage where you can put more keywords. And it should be placed somewhere towards the top half of your webpage.


Get it? Use your main keyword in your h1 tags and your secondary keyword into the h2 tags.


Make Use of alt image tags on your site. Next, click on the very top image of your webpage (This is usually your website’s header graphic) and include an alt image tag using the text “Boost Your Google rankings” if you’re adding this alt text to your website header graphic.


Click on 2 more graphics throughout your webpage and enter your other 2 keywords, plus an extra word like “graphic” or “image”… For example, we would use “adding killer keyword titles graphic” and “keywords to Boost Your Google Rankings image”. This ensures that Google won’t view this as spam.


A Germany company SISTRIX recently conducted a study of 10,000 random keywords and analysed of the top 100 Google results for each. And here’s what they found -


Keywords in the title tag are important as well as in the body of the text but title tag keywords carry far more weight.


Keywords in H2-H6 tags can influence your rankings while keywords in H1 tags do not appear to have much effect.


Keywords in bold or strong tags can positively impact your rankings. Keywords in image file names and image alt attributes also improved a sites rankings.


Keywords in the domain name often ranked higher. Inbound links and PageRank value had a significant impact on rankings.


Two Final Tips: If you want to get your new blog or site listed quickly on Google just get another site with a PageRank of at least 5 to link to you. And don’t forget to put your main keywords at the very top left and then at the very bottom right hand side of the webpage. And Boost Your Google Rankings.

Sep
21

Affiliate Marketing Tips to Generate Unstoppable Traffic

Affiliate Marketing Tips to Generate Unstoppable Traffic

Of all affiliate marketing tips, generating traffic is probably the most important topic. This is because without traffic, no visitors would come to your affiliate sites; hence, there is no way you can make money.

A lot of affiliates don’t have any affiliate plan or strategy in place to promote their affiliate offers. They don’t know that not all website traffic generation techniques will work for affiliates.

In this article, I will be revealing four website traffic techniques that affiliates can begin to use right away to earn those big commission checks.

Google Adwords: This is the quickest way to generate targeted traffic to your affiliate offers. With just you can start generating traffic to your affiliate offers in the next 15 minutes.

Google ads are those ads you see on the right hand site on most search results on google. If you do a search on google, you’ll notice that there are two sets of results. The main ones on the left and the small texts coloured blue on the right.

Advertisers place those ads on the right and they pay for every click on their ads. Your job is to be placing those kinds of ads. Go to google.com/ads for more details.

Article Marketing: This is a great way to generate steady and long-term traffic to your affiliate offers. Another reason why it is great is because it is free. All you need to do is write quality articles and submit to article directories. Please note that some article directories like ezinearticles.com do not accept affiliate links.

To beat that, create a mini website or a blog (using blogger.com or wordpress.com) where you can send your visitors before redirecting them to the merchant’s website. Alternatively, you can buy a new domain name and redirect to your affiliate link.

Ezine Advertising: This is one of the earliest forms of advertising on the Internet. Look for targeted newsletters and advertise your affiliate websites and offers. Write a powerful ad and you will see results in no time.

Solo ads seem to work best with ezine advertising. They are those ads that are sent exclusively to list members. No other ads are placed alongside yours.

To find good ezines to advertise in, go to google and do a search on “ezine advertising” (without the quotes).

Viral Marketing: Write short reports related to your affiliate products and give them out for free. Give them to your subscribers for free, and send them to other product owners to use as bonuses. Remember to include your affiliate links within the contents.

Make sure you give quality information in the report or people won’t appreciate your affiliate recommendations in your report.

If you don’t know how to create such reports, you can buy a private label right report and edit it to your satisfaction.

Out of all affiliate marketing tips, generating traffic is arguably the most important so use these tips and start earning your affiliate commissions now.

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Sep
21

Right SEO tactics for Google that enhance your website traffic

Right SEO tactics for Google that enhance your website traffic

More and more companies are going online to profit from growing number of netizens. An attractive website is one of the most important prerequisite for your online marketing endeavors. It is not enough to make a flashy website, but it is also important to make it rank high in the major search engines like Google. SEO efforts can be expensive, but you can reduce your search engine optimization cost through proper use of Google resources. Search engine optimization for Google should be done by SEO experts who have required expertise and experience in this domain.

Power of Google: Google is the biggest of all search engines, and the favorite of most webmasters to optimize their page here. WebPages which are search engine optimized and Google friendly usually achieves the primary search engine rankings. Google has considerable power to leverage online marketing endeavors of businesses worldwide. There are some rules and procedures for Google SEO, which if followed properly can bring success with reasonable search engine optimization pricing negotiated with an expert in SEO for his/her services.

Effective link building and quality content: Google searches account for more than 60% of total search engine searches of the world. This overwhelming percentage indicates the power of Google to widen your brand reach. “Spiders” are being used by Google to crawl the web in order to compile relevant search results. Two of the most important factors that can positively affect Google search engine result are quality inbound links and relevant & interesting content. Effective inbound links are helpful in driving considerable traffic to a website from other pertinent websites. Quality and popularity of those relevant sites would determine the effectiveness of link building to a great extent. Quality of text in the case of text ads should be of high quality and attractive to yield desired results. Banner ads and other links are also helpful if they are deployed in a proper manner.

Algorithm and Meta tags: Google uses a complex algorithm that checks quality of a website content. Utilization of right keywords is crucial for proper optimization of a website. Proper utilization of Meta description, titles of a website, and keywords play a vital role to enhance a website’s rankings, within a reasonable search engine optimization cost. Using all these strategies can enhance search engine ranking and ‘Page Rank’ of a website considerably.

 

Aug
14

Top 5 Website Traffic Tips – How to Get Website Traffic

Top 5 Website Traffic Tips – How to Get Website Traffic

Website traffic proves to be an extremely difficult task for webmasters looking to get the word out about their site. I bet almost all webmasters would agree that their site would be successful or their idea would generate a ton of money if only they had enough web traffic. Well today is your lucky day because after you learn these five tips you will be on your way to generating web traffic to your site so you can make money or provide your visitors with what they want and expect from visiting your site.

Tip #1: Article Marketing

To generate traffic to your site write a minimum of 300 word articles that explain your site and how it will benefit the visitor or if you are selling a product set up the article to provide advice or techniques similar to those explained or facilitated through your product. After your articles are written, submit them to article directories (like ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, articlesbase.com). You should write at least 5 articles initially then follow up with an article a day for the highest level of efficiency or at least a new article a week.

Tip #2: Backlink Building

Getting links on sites outside of your own is a strong way to move up search rankings which subsequently leads to traffic increases. There are services such as those on submitedge.com that will submit your site to link directories to get links built up, but keep in mind that a ton of links in a short period may cause search engines to penalize your site’s rank for link spam.

Search for websites similar to your own and propose a link exchange to their webmaster because search engines love when similar sites link to each other. Also, type in Google “link:http://www.competitorssite.com” replacing “competitorssite” with the address of top sites for your site’s topic on Google to see what sites link to them. Once you see what sites have links leading to a competitor’s site, seek to get links on those sites as well, copy the competition and do better.

Tip #3: Search Engine Optimization

This is the best method for those without a budget who want to get traffic without spending a lot of money or using services to submit your site to an assortment of directories. The first thing is to set up meta tags on your site. Search Google for a meta tag generator and make sure you use targeted keywords in your description, title and keyword tags in your html head.

Once that is done seek to have 5-7% of your site’s content including targeted keywords, this is known as your page’s keyword density. Follow tip #1 and tip #2 which will boost your website’s rank along with bringing in traffic. This is a time consuming method but once you get on page one of Google, your site will have countless traffic.

Tip #4: Social Bookmarking

This is a relatively new method of obtaining web traffic and can be extremely effective when done correctly. There are a variety of sites that provide “social bookmarks.” Social bookmarks are simply enough when a visitor to your site likes your sites content and goes to a social bookmarking site (like digg.com, del.icio.us, etc.) and they tag your site’s content with keywords in which others can then find your site through that tag.

The best thing to do to get social bookmark tags from visitors is to place bookmark scripts to your site which can be obtained at the Digg website and addthis.com for delicious bookmark buttons. Your site can initially be submitted to Digg.com yourself and to many other social bookmarks through onlywire.com, which is a site that allows you to submit your site to a dozen or more social bookmarking sites.

Tip #5: Pay-Per-Click Advertising

The last tip of the article is paying for web traffic. This can be very expensive, but if done correctly can produce revenue far beyond your advertising costs. The leader in PPC advertising is Google AdWords. AdWords allows users to set up a small ad set up around keywords that are displayed as sponsored links when a user searches for a topic on Google. Keep in mind that the higher your budget the more traffic you will get, and that low budgets make it very difficult for your ad to produce conversions.

Secondly, keep in mind that extremely broad keywords likely have a lot of competition for ad slots and would be very expensive, so seek to have highly targeted, tightly targeted keyword phrases that target visitors that have the highest potential of becoming customers.

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Jul
8

Getting Free Traffic From Google & Yahoo

Getting Free Traffic From Google & Yahoo

Google and Yahoo! are the most used search engines on the Internet with about 35% of all Internet searches run on one or the other. That’s about 70% of all Internet traffic from just two search engines. Actually it’s more than 80% when you consider Google’s affiliation with AOL, Netscape, and others.

Recently there have been major changes on both these engines. Many sites with top placements have lost their positions while others have achieved top positions on both engines without doing anything.

You can take advantage of these changes and get more traffic from both free.

Recent Changes at Google & Yahoo!

Google recently changed their page ranking system for search results. These changes have far reaching ramifications for your website. The quality and ranking of the pages you link to and those that link to you now matter more than ever.

Previously, Yahoo! would display its own directory listings first, before displaying Google’s web listings. Now Google and Yahoo’s! results are displayed together on one results page, in a simpler display.

Submission to Google is free, while submission to Yahoo! costs 9.00 PER YEAR, just to be considered for inclusion. Yahoo! only includes websites it considers unique in content. About half the websites that pay for inclusion don’t even get listed.

A Yahoo! listing used to have a great deal of value for unique websites but now every listing will be competing with the entire Google database. Now, if you have a page that ranks high in Google, you’ll be getting the same listing in Yahoo!’s web results free.

Following are some pointers on exactly how you might take advantage of these changes.

A Simple Google Placement Strategy

Simply put, your Yahoo! ranking is now determined by your Google ranking. If your site is doing well in Yahoo!, It now must also do well in Google also. Your Yahoo! strategy IS now your Google strategy. This makes your website optimization easier and more productive.

The Internet’s purpose is to make in-demand information available, and a search engine’s job is to provide the highest quality, most relevant information in its search results. Pages with the highest quality content will always rank higher in Google.

So getting good ranking in Google has always involved getting as many high quality links to your site as possible. It’s even more important now. It’s also important to make sure that your outgoing links take your visitors to high quality pages.

The Google Search Toolbar

Google has released a search toolbar for Internet Explorer. This toolbar provides you an insider’s method to determine and boost your ranking while helping Google (and Yahoo!) deliver more relevant results.

You can install it from the following URL
 >> http://toolbar.google.com/

After you install the toolbar, click on the Google icon on the left and choose TOOLBAR OPTIONS. Make sure you have enabled the ADVANCED OPTIONS so you get a display of the actual page ranking of any pages you search.

Look for a headline that says “PAGE INFORMATION” and check to “INCLUDE VOTING BUTTONS” on your toolbar. You will see new smiley and frowning face icons on your toolbar. These are important, as you can send an instant ranking suggestion to Google for relevant keywords used in the search results generated by Google.

Near the bottom of that page you will see “EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES” click on the text link to customize these features. There is a feature here that disables exit popups in your browser.

Google Optimization & Submission Process

The first step is to optimize the quality of your page for Google. Check your rank in the toolbar, any pages you link to should rank as high as or higher than your own page. Your rankings will improve over time.

Don’t bother requesting links from low quality link pages because just a few links from high ranking pages can have a much greater positive effect on your ranking in Google than 1,000’s of poor quality links.

Include a menu of links to your other important pages within your own website on each page. This will help build your link popularity ranking within your own website.

Work on obtaining links from high-value sites that are related to the theme of your site. When Google finds these links, your rankings will improve.

Include links to other relevant high quality, high ranking sites where your visitors can find quality related information and suggest that they link to you in return. Explain how your ranking can boost their page rank even higher. Soon you’ll see how a few high ranking links can make all the difference in the ranking of your pages.

Google will schedule your page for spidering and the Google-bot will examine and index your page, as well as the links to and from your page. Submit each page separately as you optimize them. Google’s robots will find all your pages eventually, and some experts feel it’s even better for your ranking if they are found than if submitted.

Developing Your Yahoo! Strategy

Yahoo! will only display one result from one domain in its directory results for any keyword. If you have not paid to have a SPECIFIC page included in Yahoo!, the page will not be shown in the Yahoo! directory. For websites in highly competitive niches a Yahoo! evaluation may not be productive enough to justify the cost.

Yahoo! doesn’t search its own index for keywords anymore. There is no longer any need to pay for a listing in Yahoo! IF you already rank well in Google.

So why would you even consider purchasing a Yahoo! evaluation?

A Yahoo! listing can help boost your Google ranking. If you don’t already have a good ranking in Google, and you have a quality and unique commercial website, a listing at Yahoo! could make a huge difference. If you don’t have a page rank before you get into Yahoo! you will get one soon because Google will know you are listed in Yahoo!.

A Yahoo! listing, will not only bring you more traffic from Google, it will bring you traffic from the Yahoo! directory listings as well. In addition, since Google often displays multiple listings for one domain. A Yahoo! listing may actually help generate multiple pages from your domain in Google’s results.

A neglected backdoor to getting a free Yahoo! listing is to create a content based non-commercial website on a separate domain which Yahoo! will consider for inclusion free. It’s cheaper to obtain an additional domain than to pay for a commercial listing in Yahoo!.

Use your non-commercial website to help drive traffic to your commercial website where you actually sell your product or service. Some experts feel it’s better to wait until you actually get listed in Yahoo! before you add a link to your commercial website.

If you can afford it, a Yahoo! listing pays off in the long run for most businesses. Just make sure you understand that the 9 listing fee does NOT guarantee that your site will be included.

Getting Listed in Yahoo!

Actually obtaining a listing in Yahoo! is not easy or automatic.

Before you decide to purchase a Yahoo! evaluation I would suggest purchasing the ebook. “Getting listed in Yahoo!” is all about delivering to Yahoo! what they are looking for. The cost is well worth it when you consider the 9 Yahoo! submission fee.

In Summary

Getting high quality free-targeted traffic from Google and Yahoo! can be a daunting task, but for many of us it’s the only affordable method to get traffic. That’s why there are SO many books written about search engine optimization. If it was easy, anyone could do it. The top listings go to the top optimizers and to the highest quality websites, which is as it should be.

Success in the search engines is about providing unique and compelling content related to your product, service, or solution in order to earn your visitor’s confidence and credibility, BEFORE you ask for the sale.

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Jul
2

Twitter – Your Online Blueprint For Traffic

Twitter – Your Online Blueprint For Traffic

Let’s talk for a second about what Twitter actually is. Once you sign up, you’re able to send short, few word messages to everyone that’s “following” you. Following in the case of twitter means that they sign up to be notified when you create a short Twitter message (called a “tweet”). It takes just one mouse click to follow someone and is really easy to do (every user has a big “Follow” button next to their username. Just click it and you’re following them.)

What does this mean to you and your business?

Imagine you have 5000 people following you and you’re releasing a new product. Do you think sending a quick tweet about it would help you and your business? Of course it would. If only 5 percent of the people that read your tweet went to see what you have to sell and 3 percent of those people bought it, you just made 7 sales that you wouldn’t make, were it not for Twitter. The great thing is that all it really took was just about 3 minutes of work.

Makes sense? Let’s read on.

How Else Can Twitter Affect Your Business?

One of the greatest things about Twitter is ease of use. People can send a short tweet in as little as 15 seconds if they are good typers, so another thing that twitter can do for you appart from direct sales is grant you massive exposure and word of mouth advertising.

Let’s say you have something that everyone wants, likes or is supprised by. Do you think people will talk about it? Of course they will. They will tell everyone they know and, most importantly, they’ll tweet about it, which equals instant exposure, instant sales, instant cash.

Now, do you think that a few more sales a day would influence your business in any way?

Of course it would.

Want To Learn More About How To Use Twitter In Your Business?

I know we’ve talked about a lot of things. I know you’re excited to go and try things out, but there is one thing you have to know before you we part. If you don’t know what you’re doing, Twitter can actually hurt your business.

Why?

Because it was not made for advertising. It was made to help people stay in touch with each other, so you should not abuse it, or it will not work out well for you.

Don’t worry, though. I got you covered. Here’s a website you can check out to find out more about how to use Twitter in your business. It’s an awesome site, so go check it out.

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Jun
24

3 Easy Ways To Maximize Your Twitter Traffic

3 Easy Ways To Maximize Your Twitter Traffic

As a marketer one of your main goals should be to dominate social networks. By attracting followers, making friends and nurturing those friendships, you can quickly build a list of valuable leads.

Did you know that twitter is considered to be one of the most effective and impressive ways to increase traffic?

Twitter has become a very powerful marketing tool and has helped many marketers send floods of quality targeted traffic to their main money sites. As an internet marketer you too can use twitter to drive a serious amount of traffic to your site if you know how.

With increased traffic you can increase your subscriber rates and leads and then convert them into paying customers. This leads to increases in your business income.

Follow these 3 steps to maximize your twitter traffic:

Let Everyone Know You’re On Twitter: The more people who know that you are on twitter, the more potential followers you can gain. You can let the world know of you twitter existence by including your twitter url in your email messages, your email signatures, blog posts and on your website.

Twitter provides several applications that you can use to let the world know  where to find you on twitter. I recommend using them in your business efforts to attract more followers to you on twitter so you can convert them into traffic.

Tweet Good Content Daily: If you want to build a solid relationship with your twitter followers and drive traffic back to your sites you need to post quality content daily- not weekly. If you want to gain active subscribers through your tweets, you’ll want to set up a schedule for posting and stick to it.

Don’t worry if your followers don’t become active right away. It may take some time but they will begin to notice the times that you are more active and after a while they will join you in your conversations, which is one of your main goals.

Keep 90% of your Tweets full of helpful content and limit your promotional ones. No one wants to feel like they are being ‘sold’. In fact, people will go out of their way to avoid it. Your market is searching for information that will help them to solve a problem in their lives. Provide content that teaches them something of value. Show them how to do something immediately that will make a difference for them in their lives and/or business.

By taking the time to build good relationships with your followers, you’ll be laying the groundwork for converting them into life-long customers for your products and business. Establishing a good relationship with your followers is vital if you want to take advantage of the massive flow of traffic that pours through twitter every day.

Using twitter is fun and easy and that’s why it has such a big draw. I’ll be honest, not everyone who uses twitter as a marketing tool will be successful because it takes time, effort, and patience to see effective results. But if you follow these steps regularly you should see an increase of activity and conversions.

 

Jun
20

Learn How Online Dating Business Can Get Targeted Traffic Using Twitter

Learn How Online Dating Business Can Get Targeted Traffic Using Twitter

What did you used to promote the Free Online Dating business? A quick check of the web will reveal dozens of social media websites. Twitter is just like these sites. Twitter is a social media community whose sole purpose is to provide the world with regular updates about the comings and goings in “Online Dating” life. Twitter lets you post all of the tiny details about Online Dating day or any little thought that you’d like to share with others. However, you are only given a space of 140 characters for every tweet (update), which makes it a necessity that Online Dating messages are short, snappy and informative.

Let’s look into the Free Online Dating twitter marketing campaign. First, you have to go and set up your own account so you can get started. Now you begin to create some hits. Twitter is free and it allows you to see if any of your friends, relatives, or colleagues are already using twitter through the use of your email address. As soon as you sign up, you can start using your account and get it ready by uploading a photo (of you or your company’s logo) and add a link to your Online Dating website/blog on your profile. Unlike MySpace or Facebook, this social networking site is different in that it will not let you micro-blog, meaning that it will not let you upload a lot of photos and keep them on your page so that everyone can see them. But, by using either mobile uploads or the normal way you do have the chance to share your favorite photos by adding them and using Twitter updates to share them with friends. Once you have a Twitter account, you’re now ready to follow different people. Following is just another way of saying you have subscribed to their updates. If one of the people you are following tweets, you can see it on your profile page righ then. To follow a person, all you have to do is click on the button that says follow located below the picture on their profile page. Following people is a great way to get followers of your own, most people will follow people who follow them.

If you want to make things automated, you can use sites such as Twitterfeed to connect your RSS feed to your Twitter account. and it will automatically tweet your every update. This is a good method to make sure your updates are regularly posted. Don’t bombard people though, you wouldn’t want to be the latest spammer everyone hates. So, be sure to use a mixture of manual tweets, and automatic updates. Twitter can provide a windfall for marketers who need solid focused traffic that easily converts to sales. Thi method takes time and effort, but the more time you expend the better your results. To drive traffic where you need it market consistently, update your account both automatically and in conversation and cultivate a large following of tweeters.

After you’ve developed a reputable Twitter account, it’s easy to promote stuff with it. So definitely start building your Twitter rep right away. And for more research on Online Dating business, check it out on Free Dating.

Jun
14

Seven Low Cost Traffic Generation Methods To Kick Start Your Marketing

Seven Low Cost Traffic Generation Methods To Kick Start Your Marketing

There are multiple ways to get traffic to your website for very little cost that can make you money online.

Even if you only get a small percentage of your visitors to convert successfully, it hasn’t cost you any money just your time.

There are two hard facts of any internet business that you cannot escape.

To make money online, you need to generate traffic to your website and second, you need to convert that traffic into buyers.

You might try to do this directly by sending them to a sales page or you may do it indirectly by sending them to an opt-in page to capture their details or to your information site or blog.

First, you should focus on identifying your killer keywords – the ones that attract the right kind of people into you business.

Matching up searches with your content means the resulting traffic will be pre-qualified and pre-disposed to your offer.

If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income.

BUT, it doesn’t take thousands to generate website traffic to your site.

While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, the holy grail is knowing how to generate low cost website traffic without having to run up a huge daily advertising bill.

Here I present to you my top 7 strategies to generate low cost website traffic that could help make money online for you.

1. Link exchanges

This is a well known and proven strategy. It’s rare these days to see a website without a link to another site.

Many business owners are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more visibility for their sites.

The more you create back links to your website from other pages, the more the traffic you’ll see coming as you’ll start to rank higher.

If you’re exchanging links with other sites, it’s important that the link is relevant. This usually means it is in the same niche or a relate niche as your own site.

This is more likely to please your human visitors as it provides additional information or services related directly to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links with authority sites or sites with high page ranks will also increase your traffic even more significantly, as it will boost your rankings in search engine listings.

This is known as SEO or Search Engine Optimisation.

2. Article Marketing

There are many electronic magazines (called ezines) and online newsletters around on the internet which provide free space for you to submit articles.

If you want to keep your costs low, you can write the articles yourself. But you can save time, by using the many freelance writers who are willing to create articles on your best converting keywords or keyword phrases. The fees are much smaller than you might think.

Write articles that complement your website, product, business or other offer. Write on topics that you have expertise on so you develop your knowledge researching around the subject and can come across as an authority.

Write articles that produce tips and guidance on the subject or your niche. Checking what has already been written means you can identify topics and solutions that are less competitive so your article will rank higher on your chosen keywords.

At the end of the article submission process, you can insert a “resource box”. It’s here that can say something about yourself or your business and provide your visitors with a link to your site if they want to find out more.

If they do go there, they are already impressed and predisposed to your offer, wouldn’t you say?

Once you have your article accepted in your primary article directory, you can also send variations to other article directories.

There is a lot of free article submission software available to automate the process and if you are doing a lot of article marketing, a great paid service I personally use is SubmitYourArticles.

3. Video marketing

Video marketing can send literally thousands Of visitors to your primary business. It really is the social medium of the moment. Just look at the popularity of YouTube! 5-10 minutes is all you need to get your point across.

You can either use a camcorder to video your own talking head or create a footage around your product or offer and add the audio later.

If you’re not yet confident on camera, you can also create a series of photos and powerpoint slides and record an audio commentary around that.

It’s important to put your website address in your titles along one edge of your screen.

Once you have a few videos made, you then need to drive traffic to them. The best way is to submit them to video sites. The most popular are youtube.com, metacafe.com and dailymotion.com.

To really maximise exposure and get the most traffic back to you website, you can use video submission tools. There’s a free video submission service, TubeMogul. An even better tool is a paid service I use is Traffic Geyser.

When you have registred on the prime video sites, the submitter tool will submit your videos automatically to various video sites and get you lots of traffic to your url.

4. Forum marketing

This is completely free – it only requires an input of your time. Do some initial sculking around to identify the kinds of problems people have in this niche.

Once you feel you understand the community, you can start to feedback a comment, start a post, here and there, using your knowledge and expertise.

You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

With every post, you can add a link to your site. But remember first to give value, not just blatantly advertise your site.

As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

5. Twitter marketing

Twitter and blogging go hand in hand. They help you build your authority and social networks within your niche.

Twitter has totally transformed the way that people communicate online and since it’s free, it really should be an indispensable part of your overall marketing strategy and link to your blog.

Twitter is free to join and you can get set up with an account in a matter of just a few minutes.

Twitter has proven itself to be incredibly addictive and, for business owners, very valuable too.

Technology such as Twitter has the potential to give us more than just an opportunity to tell others what happened in our day. It can be used to connect with people in a meaningful manner.

Imagine if you had cost-efficient and fast marketing tools that met existing customers where they are and that also helped you acquire new customers.

Imagine if you had the power to build a network of like-minded peers, a community of shared ideas and creativity.

6. Blog marketing

You blog should therefore be one of the main hubs for your business. It’s all about YOU Inc.

As your name gets passed around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list and RSS subscribe feed for people who regularly visit your site.

People buy from people they know, like and trust. A blog is like dating – you wouldn’t propose on the first date so why shove your sales pitch down a new visitors throat.

You can point your articles, videos, forum posts and social media activities all through your blog.

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a blog but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many many sources of ideas and inspiration for your blog, which come from your day to day activities and your own personal development.

7. Facebook marketing

Social networking has always been a main part of many internet marketers strategy. But most don’t use it effectively at all. They flood the likes of Facebook and Myspace with offers and promotions. This won’t work.

If you want to use social tools like Facebook to generate traffic to your website, you first have to identify the right groups and then invest something of yourself.

You need to be prepared to make a personal connection with other folks in the community. It’s all about relationships and connecting with people on a personal level.

Posting up useful content on social networks will get you some awesome rankings on Google. The search engines seem to put a premium on sites like Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, Squidoo and Hubpages.

In all these free or low cost traffic generation methods, it’s all about giving value to your niche community.

Leads generated in this way will be far more valuable as leads back to you – interested, highly targeted, committed and profitable.

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